Psalms 140:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah”
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“They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder <FI>is<Fi> under their lips. Selah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 140:3 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalms 58:4Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- Psalms 59:7See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
- Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Proverbs 6:14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
- Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
- Proverbs 23:32In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
- Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
- Isaiah 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
- Lamentations 3:62the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
- Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:3I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
- James 3:6The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
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